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Immature Passions Stunt Growth from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: We’re going to talk about your immature passions. And I got to tell you a story. I love rock and roll documentaries. So I love to watch the story behind these rock and roll bands, right? And how they grow together and how they break apart. Many bands break apart. That’s just very common. But there are some bands, like Metallica, Aerosmith, Rush. These bands stay together 30 and 40 years; it’s crazy. And I love to see why and of course there’s a lot of psychology to it. But […]

Reading Your Market from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: If you have watched our prototype components model for growth videos, these are the videos that talk about how there’s a service side and a market side to a creative company. And the market side informs the service side. Service is the inside of your company where operations happen. Market is what you’re selling into. And this video is about reading your market and it’s something you have to do. You have to understand what your market’s doing. The way my partner and I do that is we’re on platforms like […]

Win with Recurring Lead Gen from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: Lead gen, this is something that my partner and I have been discussing lately. And lead gen is hard, generating leads, business development, these kind of things. And we are learning hardcore, especially in a pandemic, lead gen is all about rhythms. It is all about getting blocks on your calendar and just doing stuff over and over, just hitting the market over and over. And especially in creative services, what we’re doing is we’re building trust a lot. So we’re just contacting with one person at a time. […]

Visual Onboarding Timelines from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: Hey, Hey, we do some big projects with some big clients in our firm. And there’s so many parts, so many moving parts, and so many people that we always do a kickoff. That begins our relationship with our client. One thing not long ago that we’ve started doing is, we’ve started adding visual timelines to our kickoff. And the reason we do that is because of client feedback we’ve heard. We do so many things, and we get so embedded in our client’s world and their work, that they keep […]

Part 2 Capacity and Freedom from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: This is a part two video on discussions on capacity and professional service and creative service companies, and it’s really important. We talked about exchanges and limitations on the first video. This part two is really freedom and capacity. Freedom is this word that I’ve written about for entrepreneurs. They love, they’re addicted to their freedom. They love their freedom. But here’s what I wrote in my journal, as I was working through thoughts on capacity, here’s what I said. I said, “Our limited capacity of mind and time […]